More Words, Deeper Hole

Well, I quite liked it. But then I was quite able to not expect it to have much of any correspondence to the books. It felt rather like a pretty Disney rendition of some traditional fairy tale, and I do not think that is necessarily a bad thing. Given that Goro is perhaps the future primary figure at Studio Ghibli (?), I thought the result was quite salutory. Ghibli's output is so astoundingly high quality, this might feel like a poor cousin, but it does not feel like the weakest of their projects, nor is it anywhere near the depth of crap that the world's other major animation studios have produced. I suspect it will wear well long term.